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Santa Monica Daily Press January 21-22, 2006 DAILY LOTTERY
A newspaper with issues
Volume 5, Issue 60
Slippery suspect on trial
End of days
SUPER LOTTO 4 7 10 16 17 Meganumber: 24 Jackpot: $83 Million
FANTASY 5 7 15 31 37 38
DAILY 3 Daytime: Evening:
293 683
DAILY DERBY 1st: 2nd: 3rd:
07 Eureka ! 02 Lucky Star 04 Big Ben
RACE TIME:
1.46.04
BY RYAN HYATT
Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the winning number information, mistakes can occur. In the event of any discrepancies, California State laws and California Lottery regulations will prevail. Complete game information and prize claiming instructions are available at California Lottery retailers. Visit the California State Lottery web site: http://www.calottery.com
Daily Press Staff Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD CHUCK
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According to the Nov. 10 Evening News of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., a father was under investigation by police after War Memorial Hospital reported an assault on the man’s 11year-old son. Police said it appeared that the two were playing a video game, that the son had beaten his dad by using a secret upgrade that made his character more powerful, and that the dad, in anger, had spanked the kid, put soap in his mouth and slapped him several times in the head. (The father said only that he had punished the boy for lying.)
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 21st day of 2006. There are 344 days left in the year. On Jan. 21, 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine. In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.
INDEX Horoscopes A night off, Scorpio
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Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 57°
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Opinion Truth be told
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Commentary Laws made to be broken
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State Tee time requires ‘C’ notes
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National Big chill in real estate
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Comics Strips tease
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press A colorful sunset over the Pacific, as viewed from Palisades Park, ends another mid-winter day in Santa Monica.
On second thought: DACs’ roles revisited
Rogers that: Makeover at state beach underway
BY KEVIN HERRERA
BY RYAN HYATT
Daily Press Staff Writer
Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL — School board members are having second thoughts regarding a decision made earlier this month to slightly revise the role community groups play in advising the district on educational programs and the budget. Members of the Santa Monica-Malibu Board of Education voted unanimously on Thursday to revisit the removal of one sentence that outlines the duties of District Advisory Committees — groups of citizens who inform and make suggestions to the
WILL ROGERS BEACH — Construction has finally begun for beach improvements that were planned six years ago, though they will cost nearly twice as much as originally planned. The LA County Department of Beaches and Harbors has begun an $11.6-million upgrade of facilities along Will Rogers State Beach. The improvements will include modernized lifeguard quarters at Potrero Canyon, new restrooms, more concession stands, handicapped access, a new highway entrance at Temescal Canyon and five repaved parking lots. When the plan was first unveiled in August 1999, the cost
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LAX COURTHOUSE — The jury trial is underway for the man suspected of kidnapping a Santa Monica elderly woman twice and who previously escaped from authorities. Alfonzo Fitzgerald Taylor walked away from the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles the day before a separate jury trial was set to begin last May on charges of receiving stolen property and unlawful driving of a vehicle, an incident independent of the two alleged kidnappings of a Sunset Park woman that occurred in the fall of 2004. Taylor, in his 40s, was captured in Georgia and returned to custody
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